Brexit:Boris Johnson plans to override EU withdrawal agreement

Brexit:Boris Johnson plans to override EU withdrawal agreement.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is setting up a legislation that will override the Brexit withdrawal agreement on Northern Ireland.

A move that threatens the collapse of crunch talks which the prime minister has said must be completed within five weeks. 

Prime Minister Johnson will put an ultimatum to negotiators this week, saying the UK and Europe must agree to a post-brexit trade deal by 15 October or Britain will leave.

According to the Guardian, progress on the already fragile talks will be threatened by plans revealed on Sunday for the UK government to publish a polished controversial section of the internal market bill on Wednesday that will intentionally try to unpick parts of the withdrawal agreement signed in January. It would include elements of the special arrangement of the Northern Ireland that are legally binding.

A source told the Guardian that the plan was part of a preparation for a no-deal exit that would present a number of new barriers to trade from Northern Ireland and accepted that the move was likely to blow up at the negotiations this week. 

Labour said that the prime minister "threatening to renege on the UK's legal obligations" and called it an act of “immense bad faith:one that would be viewed dimly by future trading partners and allies around the world”.

The news was condemned by Simon Coveney,Ireland's foreign affair minister who helped brokered the original Brexit settlement. 

Johnson and his allies said that they did not believe that earlier negotiations made the threat of no deal tangible enough. A government spokesperson said that it was hopeful that a deal could still be reached between the UK and EU.

Key figures close to the negotiations have already warned that EU leaders and head of states must intervene before the end of the month to save the talks from collapse.